public nudity //YOU UPGRADEmag // jan 23  2001
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BRITISH JURY FINDS PUBLIC NUDITY NO CRIME!
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"What we need is a community of beings who are not afraid to realize that creating scarcity for the sake of profits is not only tantamount to lying, it is fundamentally detrimental to over 99.99% of the Earth's population of Beings for the sake of the luxury of the one. If this is ever realized, then we will all have everything we ever wanted at the expense of close to none. 'Wanted' does not necessarily mean material wants, but peace of mind and room to explore and experiment as well."  Fred Couch.

YOU 2248                ONLY A HALF MILLENNIUM AGO most people got married in June because they took their yearly bath in May and still smelled pretty good by June.  Just to be sure about a month's body odour, brides carried a bouquet of flowers!

Lyons, France
SAT FEB 17      BUDDHA'S MILLENNIUM
DJs: PHIL (spiritual freequencies), DRISS ( spiritual freequencies), DAMIEN (spiritual freequencies), STEPH (spiritual freequencies), CHAI (infinium records), PEA (yumade/tripiatrik - shpastic elastic), LOIC VAN POUCKE (total eclipse - tip world totally eclipsed records)      LIVE ACT: DJ KENT ( cosmic-bug.com)
Deco by Blacklight Project and Wrecker. Visuals by Otherweyes. 10 KW sound system (C. Heil)  Smart stands, tchai.  Kick start at 22:00.  80 ff
INFO:  3672 code 022001   boite vocale accessible à partir d'un poste fixe ou par itineris
spot à 30 km au sud de Lyon
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YOU 2249                ONLY A HALF MILLENNIUM AGO baths consisted of a big tub filled with hot water. The man of the house had first go, then all the other males, then the women and finally the children.  Last of all were the babies, by which time the water was so dirty you could actually lose someone in it - hence the saying: "Don't throw the baby out with the bath water!"

London
FRI JAN 26      SYNAPSE
a new regular happening breaking all the rules, filling a void where we think it's needed.  a celebration of past, present and future psy-trance, techno, hard house, breakbeat and hip/trip hop.  Psychedelic Goa flashbacks, high NRG techno hard house, precision scratch tactics and esoteric beats.
ROOM ONE psychedelic Goa flashbacks:   Shahara (Planet Easton), Hydra (Silverback), Martyn (Synapse)  Chameleon (ID Spiral/Liquid Connection) 
ROOM TWO high NRG techno hard house:  Jossi (Synapse)  Stelvio (Undertow)  RSL (Prophecy)  Chris (Synapse)
CHILLOUT precision scratch tactics and esoteric beats:  3 man scratch team Dixie, Juice, Greg Nice (Big Daddy)  Rob Nota (Uber) Dan Smif (Synapse)
Audio Visuals, Art, Stalls, Jugglers, Bongos, Free Fruit, Interactive Theatre Group, Face Painting, CIRCADELICUS, Manga Visuals, Elves. Aliens, and live VJ by Itchy Head
10pm-6am  £10.  Tyssen St. Studios (Highbury&Islington tube, then bus 30)  Train: Dalston&Kingsland    INFO: 07720928953
futurefathers@hotmail.com

YOU 2250                ONLY A HALF MILLENNIUM AGO houses had thatched roofs - thick straw, piled high, with no wood underneath.  Being the only place for animals to get warm, all the dogs, cats and other small animals (mice, rats and bugs) lived up there.  When it rained and things got slippery the animals would sometimes tumble off the roof - hence the saying: "It's raining cats and dogs!"

FEB 15 - MAR 29         RELIGION & GENDER   "Walking between the Worlds"
SIX WEEK ONLINE COURSE/DEBATE   £35/$55
Highlights:
Feminism, the Missing Dimension in the Dialogue of Religions - Prof. Ursula King
Post-Christian Thought - Dr. Daphne Hampson
Gender Transformations among Ryuku Priestesses - Dr. Susan Starr Sered
Rebirth of the Goddess - Carol P Christ
Telling the Difference - Ruth Mantin
Theology as Creative Quest -  Shan Jayran
INFO: Shan Jayran, ovular@hogonline.co.uk

YOU 2251                ONLY A HALF MILLENNIUM AGO, when houses had thatched roofs, there was nothing to stop things from falling into the house. This posed a real problem in the bedroom where bugs and other droppings could really mess up your nice clean bed.  Big posts and a sheet hung over the top afforded some protection - hence the canopy bed!

Bristol, UK
BRITISH JURY FINDS PUBLIC NUDITY NO CRIME!
Probably to be later seen as one of the first major cultural breakthroughs of the Third Millennium, last week's innocent verdict delivered by a jury in the trial of Vincent Bethell for "causing a public nuisance" seems to have passed largely unnoticed.

Let the world be informed, then, that on only the tenth day of 2001 the inspired and brave leader of The Freedom To Be Yourself campaign was cleared of causing a public nuisance by appearing nude in a public place.  Not only that but he APPEARED NUDE IN THE DOCK!  When the verdict was read out, the naked Vince announced "The court has now ruled that being human is not a crime! The jury trial is so important for justice." 

In his 5 previous arrests for appearing nude in busy streets, shopping centres, on the tube and outside Parliament, Buckingham Palace, St Paul's cathedral and the Royal Courts of Justice, Vincent Bethell was found guilty by magistrates.  When arrested this last time he stepped on the cultural accelerator by refusing to wear clothes in jail and was held in a segregation unit for 5 months!  (might upset the horses, right?).

Vince (wouldn't you know?) gave a talk on his beliefs at Parallel YOUniversity's The Warp Experience a year ago, stripping off before a crowd of hundreds.  On that occasion the venue's bouncers jumped all over him and only stopped when ID Spiral and our regular DJ Easy performed sympathy strips.  Then later, when I was having problems with people wandering nude from the Hot Tub Room into the rest of the club, I invited the The Freedom To Be Yourself campaign to run the room.  I thought they'd be sensitive to my problems as a promoter but Vince refused totally to ask anyone to put their clothes on!!  That's when I realised the man was a true prophet.  His basic point is that the human body simply cannot be illegal, nor can it be perceived as a sexual object.  He's promised to continue his campaign to "test the precedent".

When the question was raised at BBC Question Time last Thursday, none of the great and good on the panel could come up with any real reasons against nudity, even the Tory!  I reckon this one's going to run and run and run, in 'developed' societies all round the planet, until, just as the last tribal is handed his free ancient Woolworth's underpants from the Catholic missionary in order to join "Civilisation" … heh heh. 

fraser.  jan.  2001

YOU 2252        ONLY A HALF MILLENNIUM AGO, only the wealthy had something other than dirt for a floor - hence the saying, "dirt poor"

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YOU 2253        ONLY A HALF MILLENNIUM AGO, the wealthy had slate floors.  Since these would get slippery in the winter, they spread "thresh" on the floor when it got wet to help keep their footing.  By the middle of winter they'd added so much thresh that, when you opened the door, it would all start slipping outside.  A piece of wood was placed in the entry way - hence the saying "crossing the thresh hold"

San Francisco
FRI FEB 2       The State of Ecstasy  / Medicine, Science and Culture of MDMA
 8.30am - 5.30pm.  The Golden Gate Club, Presidio of San Francisco.
http://www.drugpolicy.org/ecstasy.

YOU 2254        ONLY A HALF MILLENNIUM AGO, people cooked in the kitchen with a big kettle that hung permanently over the fire.  Every day they lit the fire and "added something to the pot".   They were mostly vegetarian, getting little meat.  They'd eat the stew for dinner, leave leftovers in the pot to get cold overnight, and then start all over the next day, adding whatever the day had brought in - hence the rhyme, "pease porridge hot, pease porridge cold, pease porridge in the pot, nine days old."
 
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The first book to seriously study the ultra-secretive Bilderberg Group, which has been characterised as an elite think tank, an International Establishment, or a conspiracy that actually runs the world.  In 1954, a group of Western World leaders held a secret meeting that led to its formation.  Attending were officials from the United States and from two countries, Germany and Italy, which had been defeated in World War II, and which were participating for the first time on an equal basis with other European powers.  Since then Bilderberg has included presidents, prime ministers, bankers, princes, tycoons, labor leaders, secretaries of state, NATO commanders, ambassadors, and others whose occupations are not widely known.  Media barons and journalists are often invited - but only after agreeing to keep secret who was there and what was said.
With a cache of Bilderberg archives, secretly turned over to the author by a few of its senior leaders, the book discusses who has been involved and when, and shows connections that exist and connections that - despite rumor, and the virtual obsession of the extreme left and right - do not.  It explains how Bilderberg has evolved, and in what ways it may have changed the world.  Adler also analyses questions raised by clubs, cabals, exclusive and secret or not-secret groups of every sort.
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YOU 2255        ONLY A HALF MILLENNIUM AGO, when basically vegetarian people occasionally obtained pork, they'd hang it up to show off when visitors came over - it was a sign of wealth that a man "could bring home the bacon."  If the guest was particularly respected a little piece would be cut off to share, and everyone would sit around and "chew the fat."

Seattle
SAT JAN 27      HEPATITIS BENEFIT GIG
Frontline Hepatitis Awareness, a grassroots national non profit for Hepatitis C awareness and HIV Coinfection, are hosting a benefit with three HOT bands and free HCV testing.  They're serving fresh hot chili, and there'll be a silent auction to raise monies. Veterans admitted and tested for free. .
The VFW Post 3063, located at 2812 NW Market Street. Tickets from Ticketmaster who've waived their setup fee.
http://frontline-hepatitis-awareness.com

YOU 2256        ONLY A HALF MILLENNIUM AGO, most people had trenchers for plates - a piece of wood with the middle scooped out like a bowl.  Hence a person who ate a lot was "a trencherman".  Often trenchers were made from stale paysan bread, so old and hard they could be used for quite some time.  Since trenchers were never washed, worms and mould would get settled in there and, after eating off such trenchers, you'd get "trench mouth."
 
Asheville, USA
FRI JAN 26      TOUCH SAMADHI - an amazing TEN HOUR SET by KRI
@ the future traditions.  10pm-8am.  $5.  18 & up must have I.D. to enter. 
INFO:  828.691.2207
www.touchsamadhi.com

YOU 2257        ONLY A HALF MILLENNIUM AGO, people would "break fast" or "break bread" according to status.  Workers got the burnt bottom of the loaf, the family got the middle, and guests got the top - hence the term, "upper crust."

London
THURS JAN 25            NIALL MCDEVITT @ SHORTFUSE
Yes, folks, Niall (of Warp and Southwark Mysteries fame) performs his "unplugged bardic lyricism" at Short Fuse, along with "wonderfully weird" Philip Wells, "warm and inventive" Rebecca Sabin, and Zena Edwards of the "funky breakbeat musical spokenword."
9pm at The Camden Head, Camden Walk, Islington (Angel tube)  $4/3.

YOU 2258        ONLY A HALF MILLENNIUM AGO, ale or whiskey was consumed from lead cups, the combination sometimes knocking the drinker out for a day or two.  A passerby would take them for dead and prepare them for burial. They'd be laid out on the kitchen table, the family would gather around to eat and drink, and wait to see if they'd come back to life - hence the custom of holding a "wake".
 
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YOU 2259        ONLY A HALF MILLENNIUM AGO, England started running out of places to bury people.  So they started digging up coffins, taking the bones to a "bone-house" and re-using the grave.  To their dismay, one in 25 coffins they re-opened had scratch marks on the inside. They'd been burying people alive!   So the custom grew of tying a string on the corpse's wrist, leading it through the coffin, up through the ground, and tying it to a bell.  "The graveyard shift" would have to sit out in the graveyard all night listening for "a dead ringer" to be "saved by the bell!"

London
FRI 26 JAN      MILK'N'2 SUGARS @ THE END
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info@mn2s.com

YOU 2260

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